However, master.kernel.org is still down, and there really hasn't beena ton of development going on, so I considered just skipping a week.But hey, the whole point (well, *one* of the points) of distributeddevelopment is that no single place is really any different from anyother, so since I did a github account for my divelog thing, why notsee how well it holds up to me just putting my whole kernel repo theretoo?

So while kernel.org is down for the count, let's just see how github does:

NOTE! One thing to look out for when you see a new random publichosting place usage like that is to verify that yes, it's really theperson you think it is. So is it?

You can take a few different approaches:

(a) Heck, it's open source, I don't care who I pull from, I just wanta new kernel, and not having a new update from kernel.org in the lastfew days, I *really* need my new kernel fix. I'll take it, because Ineed to exercise my CPU's by building randconfig kernels. Besides, Ilike living dangerously.

(b) Yeah, the email looks like it comes from Linus, and we all knowthat SMTP cannot possibly be spoofed, so it must be him.

(c) Ok, I can fetch that tree, and I know that Linus always doessigned tags, and I can verify the 3.1-rc5 tag with Linus known publicGPG key that I have somewhere. If it matches, I don't care who theperson doing the release announcement is, I'll trust that Linus signedthe tree